Marcom For Fun

News posted on Fri, 2006-08-18 12:00

Happy 5th Birthday, Haiku! Has it been five years, already? Seems like just yesterday. Let's celebrate with a new article. :) Welcome, IBM. Seriously. Apple created an ad with the above text when the IBM PC came out. That was pretty bold, considering that IBM had a market cap hundreds of times that of Apple at that time. That is the sort of marketing that either makes a huge splash or flops badly.

Clarifying the Haiku Icon Contest

News posted on Wed, 2006-08-16 22:18

Since it appears that there may have been some confusion about the recently announced Haiku Icon Contest , we want to make a few clarifications in order to clear up any doubts about the contest. The objective of the Haiku Icon Contest is to help develop design guidelines for the eventual creation of a full Haiku Icon Set. Just to give you an idea, the guidelines would look something like the Tango guidelines, but would be specific to Haiku.

Help needed: Web Design

News posted on Sun, 2006-08-06 04:00

Please help us create a nice theme for our new website which is based on Drupal, a popular community-oriented content management system with emphasize on navigation based on tags and relations instead of a static page tree. The website's structure is already in place (it's what you see in front of you). All we need is a nice theme. You may add a smaller quick-links navbar for some of the main navigation entries (e.